wall

An upright part of a building that surrounds a room or separates rooms.

• The wall is white.
• She hung pictures on the walls.
• We removed a wall to make the kitchen bigger.

Common phrases: bedroom wall, paint a wall, wall of something, outside wall

A high solid structure that separates areas or keeps people or things out.

• A wall divides the two gardens.
• They built a high wall around the factory.
• The children climbed over the wall.

Similar words: barrier

Common phrases: garden wall, stone wall, boundary wall

A strong structure around a city or castle that protects it from attack.

• Soldiers stood on the castle wall.
• The old city walls still survive.
• The attackers broke through the northern wall.

Similar words: rampart

Common phrases: city wall, castle wall, defensive wall

To surround an area or close it off by building solid barriers.

• They walled the garden with stone.
• The courtyard was walled on three sides.
• Workers walled off the dangerous part of the building.

How to use it: wall something in (They walled the garden in to keep animals out.); wall something off (The builders walled off the unused room.)

Similar words: enclose

Common phrases: wall something in, wall something off, wall a garden

In a video game, to shoot another player through a solid barrier.

• I walled the enemy hiding inside.
• She walled me before I could escape.
• You can wall opponents with this weapon.

Similar words: wallbang

Common phrases: wall an enemy, wall someone